Description of problem: I used rpm to install the latest kernel and it hanged when rebooting. The output: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.19-1.2912.fc7.ia64.rpm How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use yum to upadte mkinitrd on my FC6 ia64 machine. 2. Run #rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.19-1.2912.fc7.ia64.rpm 3. Reboot Actual results: Hanged. Expected results: Kernel boots well. Additional info: 1) I checked initrd.img and found there is an init script.
Yanmin, could you attach the console log so I can see where the hang was? Or does the system not boot the kernel at all? P.
Prarit, The system could boot kenel, but kernel couldn't find /init. So it looks like an initrd issue. I did an initial check of initrd.img and didn't find anything abnormal. I tried to capture log by serial port, but it didn't work. Below is something I copied from the console. Yanmin *********************log******************** Net:Registered protocol Freeing unused kernel memory:1888kb freed Failed to execute /init Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel
I tried kernel-2.6.19-1.2914.fc7.ia64.rpm. Kernel hanged on one of my machine(Montecito+Fusion SCSI disk). Pls. see the attached log.
Created attachment 146812 [details] Boot log of kernel kernel-2.6.19-1.2914.fc7.ia64.rpm
Created attachment 147878 [details] New log of kernel 2.6.20-1.2922 panic I rebuilt kernel 2.6.20-1.2922 with patch of ata/ata_piix to convert GSI to irq. Then, rebuilt a new DVD image. kernel panic on my tige-4 Montecito machine. With the same vmlinuz/initrd, my Madison machine and Hitachi machine don't panic. My Hitachi machine is also Montecito. processor info: arch : IA-64 family : 32 model : 0 model name : Intel(r) Itanium(r) 2 Processor 1.6GHz with 24M L3 Cache for 533MHz Platforms revision : 5 archrev : 0 Tiger-4 Montecito machine processor info: arch : IA-64 family : 32 model : 0 revision : 4 archrev : 0
Another difference between my Hitachi and tiger-4 is I disable multi-thread on hitachi and enable it on tiger-4, because hitachi booting becomes very slow if I turn on multi-thread.
is this reproducable with f7test4 ? There were a large number of mkinitrd fixes just before its release which may have helped.
Dave, Sorry. I'm very busy in other tasks and have no time to check it. Yanmin
This has been verified to be resolved on the F8 kernel.